Campaigners say young women of childbearing age should have been warned about the epilepsy drug as long ago as 1974<p>Warnings to young women who might become pregnant that the epilepsy drug sodium valproate could cause birth defects and developmental problems in their babies could have been made …

Los Angeles County health officials warned residents Monday to protect themselves against the mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus, as the number of people killed by the disease in L.A. County this year reached seven.<p>The department launched a campaign Monday called “It’s Not Just A Bite” to try …

If you’re studying deadly hemorrhagic fevers, the last thing you want to do is test your hypothesis on yourself — but that actually was the last thing epidemiologist Jesse William Lazear did.<p>Lazear been studying malaria and yellow fever since 1895, during his days at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. At …

When it comes to microbes in sexual organs, the vagina and its fluids seem to garner most of the attention. Heck, there's even a consortium dedicated specifically to studying which critters live and thrive in its confines.<p>Really, who can blame scientists? The vagina's microbiome — or all the …

The Centers for Disease Control has warned that there is a chance that three-fourths of America could be invaded by mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, dengue and yellow fever, reports the <i>Independent</i>. <b>The paper says the danger comes from warming temperatures in the winter, which notes that if just</b> …